Hollis Summers
Hollis Spurgeon Summers Jr. wrote many novels, collections of poetry, and short stories during an award-winning career teaching English at Georgetown College, the University of Kentucky and Ohio University. Summers […]
Sam Shepard
Sam Shepard was the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of 44 plays whose work reimagined the landscape and people of the American West. He became one of the best-known playwrights of his […]
Lucy Furman
Lucy Salome Furman attracted national attention with her popular short stories and novels about small-town and rural life in both eastern and western Kentucky around the turn of the last […]
Cleanth Brooks
Cleanth Brooks was one of 20thcentury America’s most respected literary critics and influential literature professors. With Robert Penn Warren, his classmate and longtime colleague, Brooks wrote the classic college textbooks Understanding […]
Sena Jeter Naslund
Sena Jeter Naslund of Louisville is the author of several internationally bestselling novels. She also is an award-winning teacher who helped start and nurture two influential university creative writing programs […]
